A Living Wage in Maryland

A Living Wage in Maryland

We talk a lot about a $15 minimum wage, but the truth is that’s just a starting point for establishing a living wage. The University of Washington’s Center for Women’s Welfare recently did an in-depth study of the cost of living in Maryland, and how it varies from county to county.

Maryland’s cost of living is so high that a $15 per hour wage with a full-time job isn’t enough to achieve complete self-sufficiency anywhere in Maryland for a single parent of a preschooler. The current minimum wage of $8.75 is a poverty wage, and it still will be when it reaches its scheduled increase to $10.10 an hour in 2018.

If you’re willing and able to work full time, you should make enough to get by.

My name is Bobby Bartlett and I'm running for Delegate to the Maryland General Assembly. I'm out to fight for people power, and build a more perfect union from right here in Maryland.